yanomamo
We know the world through a shared understanding of what is real and "natural". This socially constructed reality is a taken-for-granted reality. When we are confronted with a radically different reality, it can be a shocking experience. Sociologists use the term culture shock to refer to the way socially constructed reality can impact our mental and physical states.An anthropologist by the name of Napoleon Chagnon traveled 3 days up the Orinoco River in Venezuela in search of a tribe by the name of the Yanomamo. The Yanomamo in villages scattered along the border of Venezuela and Brazil. He arrives at 2 p.m. in the afternoon with hot, humid, face and hands swollen from insect bites. His heart pound. Chagnon exits the boat, pushes his way through underbrush and: "I looked up and gasped when I saw a dozen burly, naked, sweaty, hideous men staring at us down the shafts of their drawn arrows! Immense wads of green tobacco were stuck between their lower teeth and lips making them lo
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Approximate Word count = 677
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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